Zones/Loading Screen Clarification...?

wolfeye15 · Post by **wolfeye15** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 05:51

Hey all,
So I just have something that I wanted to be clear about. With all of the X-Games, there were of course the Gates, which acted as loading screens between sectors. I know that the gates are still going to be in Rebirth (Albeit non-functional) but, I guess my question is, what is going to take its place?

Are there going to be loading screen-like transitions?

hourheroyes · Post by **hourheroyes** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 05:56

I believe Superhighways are going to be the equivalent of loading screens. Otherwise, shouldn't be any.

Demongornot · Post by **Demongornot** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 06:42

Maybe for the few gates that still active...

johncage · Post by **johncage** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 07:17

hourheroyes wrote:I believe Superhighways are going to be the equivalent of loading screens. Otherwise, shouldn't be any.

those things are real time, how are they loading screens?

64bit, multicore and large ram requirement point to real time background streaming being a likely possibility.

hourheroyes · Post by **hourheroyes** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 07:29

Equivalent of loading screens in that you can't do much else but wait for them to be over, they're the transition between large areas, etc...

AkrionXxarr · Post by **AkrionXxarr** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 08:06

johncage wrote:
hourheroyes wrote:I believe Superhighways are going to be the equivalent of loading screens. Otherwise, shouldn't be any.
those things are real time, how are they loading screens?

He said the equivalent of loading screens, which they would be.

johncage wrote:64bit, multicore and large ram requirement point to real time background streaming being a likely possibility.

Loading assets in real time isn't really anything new, nor something that must require high end computers. Old shooters with long winding hallways between sections of a map are an early example of some real-time loading as the hallways would give the system time to unload old assets and load new ones.

starshadow2010 · Post by **starshadow2010** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 08:39

Here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJD0Q-SrEPs&t=15m40s is the superhighway, from what i understand.

Post by **CBJ** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 09:32

There are no loading screens once you're in-game. While you can't leave a superhighway, you still have control of your ship inside it and it's certainly not a loading screen, as you will see. Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.

Big Bad Orca · Post by **Big Bad Orca** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:21

Nice - great work there!

Haysand · Post by **Haysand** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:26

CBJ wrote: Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.

Aren't gates supposed to be nonfunctional?

elexis · Post by **elexis** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:27

Most of them, read the original stickies for more info

Vandragorax · Post by **Vandragorax** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:28

We have been told a select few may 'reactivate' somehow at some point in the plot missions.

Haysand · Post by **Haysand** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:43

elexis wrote:Most of them, read the original stickies for more info :)

That is what I did and why I asked...

"Gates still exist, but right now.... they do not work. However, there are signs that this may soon change! "

Vandragorax · Post by **Vandragorax** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 10:45

There you go then! You'll just have to play on Friday to find out what happens, like the rest of us ;D

foamwolf · Post by **foamwolf** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 11:19

Haysand wrote:
CBJ wrote: Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.
Aren't gates supposed to be nonfunctional?

Pointless question.

AkrionXxarr · Post by **AkrionXxarr** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 11:22

foamwolf wrote:
Haysand wrote:
CBJ wrote: Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.
Aren't gates supposed to be nonfunctional?
Pointless question.

Well that was uncalled for.

Post by **Terre** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 11:24

@foamwolf: Please refrain from making such comments.

wolfeye15 · Post by **wolfeye15** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 14:25

CBJ wrote:There are no loading screens once you're in-game. While you can't leave a superhighway, you still have control of your ship inside it and it's certainly not a loading screen, as you will see. Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.

That is incredible! I love these games, but the gate thing was always something that I wasn't a huge fan of. Thanks for the info!

DaddyMonster · Post by **DaddyMonster** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 14:43

CBJ wrote:There are no loading screens once you're in-game. While you can't leave a superhighway, you still have control of your ship inside it and it's certainly not a loading screen, as you will see. Even gate transitions are pretty much seamless.

I would temper that with the entering / leaving cockpit sequence is very close to a loading screen, albeit quite a seamless one. My understanding is that the interior is not held in memory in flight. Is that fair CBJ?

Earth Ultimatum IV. · Post by **Earth Ultimatum IV.** » Tue, 12. Nov 13, 14:45

You can see a short FPS stop when the player is entering a new zone, and when the stop ends, you suddenly see all the stations appear in front of you.

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Zones/Loading Screen Clarification...?

Zones/Loading Screen Clarification...?